How can I portray body horror and still be sensitive to people with disabilities?
Asked by: Rodney Arrow
Body horror is legitimately scary.
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You could do this by putting at least one character in each category:
- A righteous and deserving character becomes disabled.
- Another righteous and deserving character gets away with no new injuries.
- An unsympathetic and undeserving character becomes disabled.
Is body horror ableist?
Body horror, it has to be said, runs a higher than usual risk of veering off into ableism, either intentionally or accidentally. See stories that position becoming disabled as a “fate worse than death”, antagonists with marked visible disabilities when compared with the “heroes”, etc.
Are horror movies Ableist?
Thus, in plain actuality, the horror genre is entrenched in ableism at its most basic levels and earliest origins – due to its use of bodies and minds that vary from the norm, in the hope that they will cause fear (Bluth 2019).